Fort Worth Motorcycle Riders

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To many variables for this study to be very accurate. Hard to prove that the helmet saved your life in many cases also hard to prove how much money it saved and such. Don't get me wrong I am a firm believer in Helmets but studies like this are often just made to push an agenda. Now if it was to be a study that showed the number of reported motorcycle accidents in a state then took that number and split it between how many had helmets on and how many didn't. Then showed a percentage of how many died with no helmet and how many died with helmets then it would be a little closer but even then we would still have to many uncontrollable factors.

Anyway ... yes your safer if you have a helmet on. More people will wear a helmet if its the law. So in the end you will probably save lives with helmet laws.

That's almost common sense.

I see a lack of helmets as a good thing - idiot population control. Even when I would ride other people's cruisers, it was full face only.

I love that this comes from the Center for Disease Control...kind of sheds more light on JT's comment about idiot control...being an idiot may actually be recognized as a disease...finally.

Yes, for me it's common sense that helmets save lives and money...study it all you want, it won't change that simple fact one way or the other.

My insurance company refunded me over $700 for my dented helmet...it would have been much more expensive for them and me had I not been wearing it.

Of my 5 crashes, I can say for certain the helmet saved me at least twice, and saved me from more serious injury 2 other times. I had just one crash where the helmet never made contact with anything other than the ground after I gently laid my head back.

I can say with certainty that a helmet has saved me once.

That said, nanny laws are bullshit. Giving up liberty to save lives and money is not OK.

EDIT: It is worth mention that at no time that a helmet has helped me would I have been riding like I was (or at all) had I not been wearing one. Aside from getting hit by a Ford Focus my 5 other crashes have been related to riding hard.

Oh, I agree, I hate the idea of being told I HAVE to wear one, but I think everyone should wear one.

I'm with Lonestar on this one.. why is this being published by the CDC? I mean I understand riding motorcycles is addicting, but are we considering the motorcycle addiction a disease now, like alcoholism? If so, shouldn't we encourage NOT wearing helmets to reduce the disease? LOL.

stoney812 wrote:I'm with Lonestar on this one.. why is this being published by the CDC? I mean I understand riding motorcycles is addicting, but are we considering the motorcycle addiction a disease now, like alcoholism? If so, shouldn't we encourage NOT wearing helmets to reduce the disease? LOL.

Because the government has to grow. Same reason the CDC and the EPA are looking at gun control, both from the "health hazards" and "environmental hazards" - lead.

$3.2 trillion HAS to be spent somewhere.....

JTChiTown wrote:

stoney812 wrote:I'm with Lonestar on this one.. why is this being published by the CDC? I mean I understand riding motorcycles is addicting, but are we considering the motorcycle addiction a disease now, like alcoholism? If so, shouldn't we encourage NOT wearing helmets to reduce the disease? LOL.

Because the government has to grow. Same reason the CDC and the EPA are looking at gun control, both from the "health hazards" and "environmental hazards" - lead.

$3.2 trillion HAS to be spent somewhere.....

"Lead" poisoning does prove to be fatal a great percentage of the time.